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  • 2017
  • Entertainment One
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2017
  • Entertainment One
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary After a 12 year absence, a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.

Directed By: Xavier Dolan

Written By: Jean-Luc Lagarce, Xavier Dolan

  • 2017
  • Entertainment One
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2017
  • Entertainment One
  • 1 h 37 m

It's Only the End of the World

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
48
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
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Summary After a 12 year absence, a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.

Directed By: Xavier Dolan

Written By: Jean-Luc Lagarce, Xavier Dolan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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91% Mixed
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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91% Mixed
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
May 20, 2016
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is histrionic and claustrophobic: deliberately oppressive and pretty well pop-eyed in its madness – and yet a brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
May 20, 2016
The experience is frequently infuriating, but it’s quite clearly supposed to be – it’s about hell being the other people in your own family.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
58
May 20, 2016
While he does, to an extent, stifle some of his more adolescent instincts in comparison to earlier films (e.g. Laurence Anyways and Mommy), Dolan generally appears to have mistaken maturity for joylessness.
By Giovanni Marchini Camia FULL REVIEW
50
May 20, 2016
Dolan shoots in tightly held close-ups, forgoing spatial staging for the immediate pleasures of fabric and light. Whereas similar imagery filled his previous films with energy and life, here it just makes the somber piece feel more claustrophobic and inert.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
42
May 20, 2016
Having recruited as fine a cast of French-speaking thesps as has ever been assembled, and marshalled a strong behind-the-camera team, Dolan’s usually exuberant egotism is here taken so seriously that what we’re left with is a shrieking bore, without a single character worth rooting for, least of all the puddle of maudlin self-pity at its center.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
40
May 20, 2016
The director finds himself stymied by weak source material — Jean-Luc Lagarce's 1990 play about a young man who returns home to tell his family he's dying — and only intermittently well served by his starry French cast.
By Jon Frosch FULL REVIEW
40
May 20, 2016
The material is weak, overly familiar and cliché-ridden. Dolan throws the cinematic sink at it but his latest feels like a shorter, not particularly watchable sequel to August, Osage County.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW

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32% Mixed
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Production Company MK2, Diaphana Distribution, Sons of Manual, MK2 Productions, Téléfilm Canada, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC), Film and Television Tax Credit Administered by SODEC, Crédit d'Impôt pour la Production Cinématographique ou Magnétoscopique Canadienne, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Radio Canada, Fonds Quebecor, Super Ecran, France 2 Cinéma, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, My Unity Production, 120 Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Jun 30, 2017
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Tagline It would have been a lovely family dinner. If it weren't the last.
Website http://diaphana.fr/film/juste-la-fin-du-monde
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Awards

Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 6 Wins & 8 Nominations
Riviera International Film Festival
• 7 Nominations
César Awards, France
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations

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